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there are few names better known in the world of social media and technology than mark zuckerberg and he is today indeed in the russian capital facebook is not in fact the number one social network in russia it's another social network called contact which means in contact and he may well be here i'm sure part of the reason for his visit is to try and boost facebook's p.r. in russia and its market share but there has been another idea floated by the russian media quoting russian computer companies who say that he may well in fact be here to try and headhunt talented russians programmers and they're not happy about that prospect they point to one thousand ninety eight when russia was in a financial crisis and microsoft received similar accusations of poaching talented russian programmers and taking them back to the u.s. was never the real reason that he was here he still managed to find time to pose for photos in red square in his trademark red hoodie and to go into mcdonald's for a bite to eat so it seems that although the main message is technology it's not all about business. move o
there are few names better known in the world of social media and technology than mark zuckerberg and he is today indeed in the russian capital facebook is not in fact the number one social network in russia it's another social network called contact which means in contact and he may well be here i'm sure part of the reason for his visit is to try and boost facebook's p.r. in russia and its market share but there has been another idea floated by the russian media quoting russian computer...
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oh and welcome to the business updates on our team we start with facebook has had mark zuckerberg has come to moscow he's been on red square got some burgers and mcdonald's but also visited the residency of russia's prime minister dmitry medvedev they had a personal meeting and they talked about different business issues such as some may be organizing a tech center for facebook in russia but other media speculate there could be different reasons behind this move of mark zuckerberg to moscow let's listen to tom bot. there are few names better known in the world of social media and technology than mark zuckerberg and he is today indeed in the russian capital facebook is not in fact the number one social network in russia it's another social network called contact which means in contact and he may well be here i'm sure part of the reason for his visit is to try and boost facebook's p.r. in russia and its market share but there has been another idea floated by the russian media quoting russian computer companies who say that he may well in fact be here to try and headhunt talented russian
oh and welcome to the business updates on our team we start with facebook has had mark zuckerberg has come to moscow he's been on red square got some burgers and mcdonald's but also visited the residency of russia's prime minister dmitry medvedev they had a personal meeting and they talked about different business issues such as some may be organizing a tech center for facebook in russia but other media speculate there could be different reasons behind this move of mark zuckerberg to moscow...
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very temperate business for facebook founder mark zuckerberg is in moscow on monday saying out certainly here really had a chance to walk around red square and staying true to themselves had a bite to eat at mcdonald's our correspondent tom barton is following the story for us tom what's the real reason i guess visiting moscow. good question indeed there are few people in the world of technology or social media more famous than mark zuckerberg and he's in day today in moscow he's meeting with prime minister dmitry medvedev he's going to go to moscow state university to meet students there and will probably spend some time behind me at an event called digital october mix between a. technological expo for technological whiz kids that is on the face of it the reason why he is in moscow there is however other ideas that have been posed by members of russia's technological community and companies here they say that the real reason may be to head home to poach advanced russian programmers to work at facebook. and they don't they don't feel particularly happy about that telling vedder mosty amo
very temperate business for facebook founder mark zuckerberg is in moscow on monday saying out certainly here really had a chance to walk around red square and staying true to themselves had a bite to eat at mcdonald's our correspondent tom barton is following the story for us tom what's the real reason i guess visiting moscow. good question indeed there are few people in the world of technology or social media more famous than mark zuckerberg and he's in day today in moscow he's meeting with...